Challenges of Using Text Classifiers for Causal Inference
Challenges of Using Text Classifiers for Causal Inference
Causal understanding is essential for many kinds of decision-making, but causal inference from observational data has typically only been applied to structured, low-dimensional datasets. While text classifiers produce low-dimensional outputs, their use in causal inference has not previously been studied. To facilitate causal analyses based on language data, we consider …